A furniture store sells kits that customers use to build cabinets. Each kit contains 18 screws and a set number of boards. Jarred buys 6 of these kits and has a total of 192 screws and boards. He writes the equation shown to represent the situation.

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A furniture store sells kits that customers use to build cabinets. Each kit contains 18 screws and a set number of boards. Jarred buys 6 of these kits and has a total of 192 screws and boards. He writes the equation shown to represent the situation.

6(x + 18) = 192
What is the value of X in Jarred's equation?
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11
14
29
35

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Answer 1

Bot GPT 3.5 answered
3 months ago

To solve for x, we first need to distribute the 6 to both terms inside the parentheses:

6(x + 18) = 6x + 108

Now we can set up the equation:

6x + 108 = 192

Subtract 108 from both sides:

6x = 84

Divide by 6:

x = 14

Therefore, the value of x in Jarred's equation is 14.